Sterling Talon is your in-house growth department: marketing, software and AI specialists who plug into your business, backed by a 17-year track record.
Grow. Scale. Lead. Rule your market.
The usual fix is hiring a marketing director or a developer. That takes months and well into six figures before anything moves, while AI-enabled competitors take the lead in your market.
Every engagement begins with a specific, measurable outcome in mind. We define success and execute the plan to achieve it.
A written target: customers, members, revenue, or hours saved.
Whatever reaches it fastest: a campaign, an application, or AI in your existing systems.
Weekly numbers. What works gets scaled; what doesn't gets cut.
Campaigns, launches, ads, video, search and AI-answer visibility, built to convert and run by people who watch the numbers every day.
We've run the American Orchid Society's campaigns for seven years. Each one adds a new layer of members who keep renewing, so the results compound year after year instead of starting from zero.
Each color is one year's campaign. Those members keep renewing, so each year's total builds on the last.
A spring 2025 membership drive offset three years of membership attrition in under a month.
Within four years, members from one campaign had paid more than three times their first orders, and a third were still renewing.
"Sterling Talon worked closely with the development committee and used digital marketing strategies to quadruple our annual donation volume. Our success rate has been amazing."Cheryl Erins, Development Committee Chair, American Orchid Society
No pixel history and no warm audience. We tested 20 ads, found the winners fast and scaled them.
Client figures are shared one-on-one; ask us on your Growth Plan call.
Full platforms, not brochures: integrated with the systems behind them and built from the ground up for search and AI visibility.
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6 screenshotsWhen people ask Google, ChatGPT or Gemini, these clients are the answer.
Share of voice in AI answers (Gemini)
Ranking #1 on Google for
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Share of voice in AI answers
Ranking #1 on Google for
Source: Semrush, Nov 7, 2026 ·
Replace the patchwork of software and spreadsheets with applications built around how you actually work, documented and owned by you.
3 screenshotsA logistics platform that runs the whole warehouse operation, from quote to invoice.
5 screenshotsThe AOS's official orchid software: 100,000+ award-winning orchid photos for 10,000+ users, on the web and offline on Windows.
4 screenshotsThe AOS's custom CRM: members, donations, events, awards, orders and accounting for tens of thousands of users.
3 screenshotsAutomatic full and incremental backups of 58,000+ documents and 93,000+ assets to the AOS's own Azure cloud storage, so its content never depends on a single vendor.
Native AI built into your operations and the systems you already run, including legacy applications, so you move first.
Every inbound call and web form is evaluated against the firm's own criteria, scored, categorized and summarized, so high-value cases rise to the top and nothing falls through the cracks.
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Both featured clients lead their categories in share of voice across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI Mode. We optimize for how people search now.
We add AI to existing and legacy applications, so your team gets the benefit without a risky replacement project.
"Sterling Talon has had a fundamentally positive influence on our IT delivery. They balance the maintenance of our legacy systems, improvements to existing applications, and the deployment of entirely new capabilities on new platforms.
Anthony and his team were key in turning the ideas for our new member platform into delivered reality. Then they tied the value of these new offerings into a digital marketing campaign to attract a new generation of members.
ST offers a blend of these talents which I have not seen in other similar consulting agencies."
Jay Balchan · Past President and IT Chair, American Orchid Society
"So much of what we do today, I can't envision doing without the work of Sterling Talon."
Laura Newton, American Orchid Society
"You can trust these guys and, to me, that's everything."
Steve Miller, President, Welland Laike Communications
Anthony Tanner started his first agency in 1995, building dynamic websites, applications and intranets for companies like U.S. Bancorp, Honeywell and Polaris. He's led Sterling Talon since 2009, and ran technology and marketing for an e-commerce company Inc. ranked the second fastest-growing retailer in the U.S.
His conviction is simple: agree on the outcome first, then use whatever gets there fastest. Today that means pairing experienced specialists, including seasoned campaign, video, social media, development, content and operations experts, with the latest AI, so clients get a department's worth of capability at a fraction of the cost.
A dedicated monthly team with a written 90-day target: campaigns, content, ads, search and the systems behind them, reported weekly.
Applications and AI projects with a defined scope, delivered with user and technical documentation you own.
Want your own team to run it? Our sister company TopHands trains them.
We agree on the outcome in writing before work starts, report the numbers weekly, and you own everything we build. If something isn't working, you'll hear it from us first, along with what we're changing.
No. The Growth Plan is free and gives you a clear picture to plan with. Many clients start with a focused, fixed-price project sized to what's available now.
Usually a short weekly check-in and quick approvals. We do the heavy lifting, and we document everything so nothing depends on memory.
Yes. Our clients range from national associations to law firms, logistics companies and e-commerce brands.
Yes. The custom applications, content and documentation we create for you are yours. Where a solution uses a licensed platform, we tell you up front.
Either. We can be your whole growth department, or extend the team you have and make them more effective.
Generally within weeks. You'll have our timeline up front, before any work begins, along with the outcome we're working toward.
Get a free Growth Plan: a short call, and the two or three moves with the biggest payoff for your business.
We take on a limited number of new clients each quarter so every engagement gets senior attention.
Tell us a little about your business. We'll come back with the moves that matter most.
The results described on this site, including membership, revenue, donation, return-on-ad-spend, lead and search-ranking figures, are real results we achieved for specific clients. They are not typical, and they are not a guarantee or promise of future results.
Every organization is different. Outcomes depend on many factors, including your market, offer, pricing, budget, timing, competition, existing systems and the effort your team invests. Your results may be better or worse than those shown.
Figures come from client records and platform data, such as Meta Ads Manager, Semrush and client CRM systems, for the time periods stated. Some figures are rounded or summarized, and some client details are withheld to protect their confidentiality.
Nothing on this site is financial, legal, tax or investment advice. Any engagement with Sterling Talon is governed by a written agreement that sets out its scope, targets and terms.
Questions? Email hello@sterlingtalon.com.
